Spain to scrap mandatory outdoor masks, other measures as contagion ebbs

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Spain will next week lift a requirement for people to wear masks outdoors as a measure against the coronavirus, extending a wider rollback of restrictions as the contagion slowly recedes in the country. reports Reuters.

The cabinet plans to approve an end to mandatory outdoor mask wearing at its weekly meeting on Tuesday and make it effective two days later, Health Minister Carolina Darias told La SER radio station.

As contagion rates and other indicators have fallen for several days, the government considers the Covid-19 situation to have eased, she said.

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